Archive for February, 2010

Life in Cock’s head

Or mine. I think the meds are finally kick­ing in. I wrote this in about 2004. The most eerily pre­scient part was when I said this: “At the edge, the very edge of his mind, a stir, almost like foot­steps out­side a spot­light. Something off­stage, in the dark, but not able to move to where it would be visible.” […]

Et tu, Easy-​​Bake?

Last week came the sad news that the inven­tor of the Frisbee had died. This week, we learn that Ronald Howes, who invented the Easy-​​​​Bake oven, has also died. He was 83. Undertakers esti­mate that it will take 18 months to cre­mate his body.

Mango Pickle

I play some didj too. Though not usu­ally after I catch bream. Come to think of it, I’m not sure what bream looks like. Much more bet­ter with sub­woofer. Rake the shafters.

Will disc golf ever recover?

Multiple sources carry the news that Fred Morrison, the inven­tor of the Frisbee, died today at age 90. In lieu of bur­ial, his body will be thrown onto the roof.

Test from BlogWriter

Just check­ing to see if this works from iPhone. Move along. Nothing to see here.

Lamotrigine followup

It was Friday night; now it’s Saturday morn­ing. 0400. It’s still work­ing, but it’s lost some of its effi­cacy (obvi­ously, or I’d be asleep now). The manic uptick is a bit harder than it was, say, five days ago. I hope this is just a bit of tol­er­ance. I’ll be up to 50 mg next week, and maybe that’ll offer […]

Quick aside: iPad, iPhone and multitasking

Lots of com­plaints about how iPad doesn’t mul­ti­task any more than iPhone 3GS. Okay, so, well. My machine is jail­bro­ken, and has a mul­ti­tasker in it. It’s about 5% more con­ve­nient than it used to be. If I unin­istalled the mul­ti­tasker, frankly, I’d barely notice. I use Orbit almost every time I trig­ger my phone. Multitasker? Hardly ever. What […]

So the local paper has picked me up

In a way. They have a “cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism” blog site, and they decided that my idea — post­ing com­men­tary from a prac­tic­ing lay Buddhist — might be worth pol­lut­ing the com­mu­nity with car­ry­ing to the masses. Anyway, here’s my inau­gural post.

Lamotrigine

Dx. came back more or less how I sus­pected it would: Bipolar I. I think it’s mostly fugue; the rest of the time I think I’m cyclothymic rather than fully BP. Rapid cycling too, just to make it a lit­tle more fun. Cyclothymia is still one of those things that’s being stud­ied and under­stood fur­ther; the trans­la­tion, prac­ti­cally, is, we […]